The Kodak Flashmite 20 is Yet Another Old Film Camera (tm) in my arsenal. The Flashmite is an early 1960's camera and definitely looks the part, with plastic and bakelite in all it's glory. Definitely a "user" camera, this has some very basic aperture controls and some very basic focus controls.
I took this one down to the beach last October, and only recently had the film developed. Yes, it has been sitting that long. I remember that it was October because I remember having the camera during the Sea Witch Festival at Rehoboth Beach. Unfortunately I ran out of film before getting to photograph any of the festival, but I did get some beach pictures!
The camera is actually really nice to hold, though the shutter release is a little odd; it's more of a lever than a button and takes some getting used to without jerking the camera during the shot. I had a few pictures turn out blurry until I got the hang of the camera.
It uses 620 sized film. 620 film is the same size as 120 film but is on a smaller spindle. The film that produced these pictures was original 620 film that had expired in 1996.
The pictures came back about as I had expected them to, in all their expired-film based glory. I actually really like the old analogue look, but also really like black and white, so I took the liberty of doing some post processing on them.
This is a fun camera to use. I am looking forward to taking it out again with, perhaps, some newer film.
My other film cameras:
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